Enlarge / A Strongyloides filariform larva. (credit: Getty | BSIP) Doctors in Spain diagnosed a man with an unusual roundworm infection after watching an army of larvae writhe and slither under his skin, blanketing his whole body in an ever-shifting rash. Doctors reported the man’s rare hyperinfection this week in the New England Journal of […]
Enlarge / Head of pork tapeworm. (credit: Getty | Michael J Klein) On a night that seemed like any other, a perfectly healthy 38-year-old man in Massachusetts fell from his bed amid a violent seizure at 4 am. The commotion woke his wife, who found her husband on the floor, shaking and “speaking gibberish.” He […]
Enlarge / tablets of Ivermectin drugs in Tehatta, West Benga, India on 19 May on 2021. (credit: Getty | Nurphoto) Amid the current delta-fueled wave of COVID-19, officials have noted a dangerous surge in the misuse of a deworming drug routinely used in livestock. The result is an uptick in calls to poison control centers, […]